Talking Bibles International, a ministry dedicated to preserving audio recordings of translated scriptures for those around the world who cannot read, have sent one thousand talking bibles to Africa, Malawi.

|PIC2|On September 2nd, at the Kamuzu Stadium in Blantyre, the Chichewa First Audio bibles were unveiled, in a dedication service attended by the nation's chief Justice, Leonard Unyolo, and vice president of Talking Bibles International, Paul Hoekstra.

Inspired by Dr. Harvey T. Hoekstra, the concept of single-voice recordings of the Bible, began in 1967, when, according to Hoekstra, about half of the world's population could not read, or were from oral cultures.

A decade later, he launched Audio Scriptures International, and began to produce, distribute and preserve audio scriptures in as many languages as possible.

This was followed by his son, Mark creating the Talking Bible; described as a self-contained listening device which looks like a bible, Mark aimed to create a bible, available to listen at the push of a button.

Finally, to help place evangelism tools developed by these Ministries, his Brother Paul Hoekstra formed the Adopt-a-Village ministry in 1998.

Within a few years, Adopt-A-Village, was responsible for the placement of listening Bibles in nearly 20,000 villages in India alone.

For more information on these ministries, and to listen to the Talking Bible, please click here.